Thank you, Pugsy. After making the changes we discussed things are much improved. I made it almost 5 hours last night. Much better night and feel much better during the day. Now I just need to get a better mask. What I use isn't awful but I'm aware that over the past 4-5 years there are new options....

Thanks for responding, Pugsy. As I raised the PS beyond about 3.0 up to a high of 4.2, I began to have many more centrals. (When at 2.4 my AHI was often under 2.00, had two nights at 0.0!) When in the mid 3's I was seeing AHI's of 7, 11, 12. Mostly made of centrals, of course. It's not a perfect cor...

Back in 2013 I was diagnosed with complex sleep apnea and given a PR DS960 ASV machine. I never could get used to it--especially it forcing breaths as I tried to fall asleep--but since I had stopped taking a medication that could have been causing my centrals a couple years ago this spring my doc or...

My CI ranged from 4-6 on most nights which isn't great but not exactly CSA territory. If that's what's happening, relax and go with it. Take comfort in the fact that you know you're breathing. Let it help -- that's its job. Don't think "Crap, I'm not breathing - this is bad!!" -- smile and think of...

John -- Thank you. I don't doubt that your advice about "sticking too it" (echoed by Sleeprider and Pugsy) is correct. I pushed myself last night and I will have to say that I kept the mask on longer--and got closer to falling to sleep--than in the past. More importantly, when the machine started to...

Working backwards: Sleeprider -- Thanks. Yes, PSmin=4 made a big difference in "feel". However, I'm still having the machine try to force a breath while I'm very much awake. I can't wait to analyze the data and and post it here so those with experience can tell me what they see. Also, and strangely,...

Pugsy, It's a 960. Since my first efforts in 2013, and again in the fall of 2014 after I got my first replacement machine, I've only been trying since I got my 2nd replacement machine--maybe 2 weeks? Maybe I just need to be more patient and stick with it? I do not have software, but I've seen refere...

Hi, I’m “new” in that I just created a user ID yesterday, but I’ve been lurking for some time. I’m a 45-year-old male with complex apnea and have been struggling with BiPAP therapy since the summer of 2013. Specifically, I have a BiPAP ASV Advanced and I’ve gotten just about no support from my DME. ...